Watakushi No Nankyoku Tankenki | 白瀨矗

Nankyoku Tankenki. [transliterated Japanese title]

Account of My Expedition to the South Pole

by Nobu Shirase

Tokyo: Hihon Tosho Senta, 1998. Ningen No Kiroku series, 61. 19.4 cm,

horizontally textured white cloth, spine, front and rear covers lettered and decorated in black, grayish-tan endpapers flecked with white. pp. 298, 1, 5 [advertisement of series]; 1 b/w plate leaf of Shirase with dog [frontispiece], 33 sketches in text including one map. A Fine Copy in Fine Unclipped Dust Jacket — as new. — Rosove 309.D1.

The Hihon Tosho Senta edition under the title of the 1942 edition titled Watakushi No Nankyoku Tankenki — a re-write of the “official account” of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910 - 1912. Book reads from “back” to “front” and with Japanese text.